Erratum: Expression of Concern: Evidence for an African Cluster of Human Head and Body Lice with Variable Colors and Interbreeding of Lice between Continents (PLoS ONE (2012) 7:5 (e37804) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037804);Evidence for an African cluster of human head and body lice with variable colors and interbreeding of lice between continents

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Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Veracx, Aurélie ^a   Boutellis, Amina ^a   Merhej, Vicky ^a   Diatta, Georges ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; BURUNDI; CLADISTICS; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECOTYPE; ETHIOPIA; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; INTERBREEDING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDICULUS; PHENOTYPE; PHTHIRUS; PHYLOGENY; RWANDA; SENEGAL;

PEDICULUS HUMANUS; PEDICULUS HUMANUS CAPITIS; PHTHIRAPTERA;

EID: 84861473247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277634     Document Type: Erratum

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